The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-16
A GEORGIAN IN LONDON.
Same of the Peculiar Things Which
Strike His Fancy.

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hurry about anything. London life is a
sra school for the cultivation of patience.
Tbora is only one performance that requires
,,ick action, and that is in crossing the
erect The reckless driving of cabmen and
the rapidity with which the omnibuses
move along the streets render it necessary
g., the expenditure of every effort
70 keep from being run over. For an exhi-
ti+ion of supreme impertinence commend
rne To- London cabman. However, as to
the transaction of ordinary business the
English people eve slowly. Time to
them is not ''the gold-dust of existence" or
else they squander much of this precious
material Tn fact is attributed largely to
REDTAPEIsM.
No people in the world have so much of
radtapeism as the English. Their methods
and customs are hoary with age, and to
Violate them would be more than crime in
tbeir estimation This reaches down from
the throne to the lowest grade in
society. From the Parliament to the
club room, from royalty to the hoodlum.
You call to see gentleman on business,
in accordance with a previous appointment
at given hour. You are invited to scat
in an outer office. Your card is sent in.
The porter returns and IN very pompous
style lllIOTulS YOU Ui7'b ITO Is ell
pSged and asks if you cannot call again.
You have gone perhaps five or six miles to
meet this engagement but there is no help
for it. He doesn't think that a day will
make any difference.
THE DIGNIFIED ATTORNEYS.
Il is SO with attorneys. There is q GER
tain formality by which alone they can be
approached. You are announced, but
certain time must elapse before YOU
are admitted into their august
presence If you show any American i'm
patience at the delay some one else may be
summoned in advance of you. 1t will do
no good to kick and say you will go to some
one else for the other fellow is put up on
the same style, and although his elbows may
be threadbare, and the seat of his brooches
patched, he would not admit you, except in
the usual way. Thus is it in all public
Offices banks and business houses Time is
nothing-dignity everything. We use a
good many revenue stamps. To secure 91
or Is worth will require a full half day,
although we do not have to go moro than a
mile or two. The manipulations to secure
them are manifold, and painful to a sensi-
tive nature. The best way, however, is to
take matters easy, for all your fretting will
not alter their methods in the slightest degree.
CASTE.
Inc TSldIlOu DSbWbeu Jfl6 negro ana UO6
white man in the South is not more marked
than that between the Englishman and his
servant. In fact, if any difference exists,
the English servant is the most humble and
more careful of his masters wishes
The Introduction of common schools and
the increasing intelligence of the poorer
class are gradually wearing away this diff
ference between certain classes. Occasion
ally brilliant boy or girl from the humber
walks of life breaks over all barriers and
comes to the front like George Stephenson
the poor herd boy, who became the origina-
tor Of the English railroad system. The
lines of separation are still more marked be-
tween the nobility and the tradesman.
With these traditional distinctions it is no
marvel that there is a great deal
of merit among the masses
This great city, with its West
End of luxury, and wealth, and culture is in
strange contrast with its East End Of want,
and poverty and suffering. Between these
extremes are the great centres of business
and the comfortable homes of the middle
classes If it was not for this breakwater
there is no telling what conflicts might
ensue The bestowment of some benefac-
ton by the rich and an occasional royal
visit have had the influence to quiet the
turbulent feeling ranking in the breasts of
the discontented; but this cannot always
last. There must be some stronger tie than
force to maintain amicable relations be-
tween palace and howell.
CONSERVATIVE INFLUENCE.
If it We're not for the conservative in
fuence of the middle class, with its tremen-
dous moral power, occasion would not be
wanting for conflicts of the most direful
character, But the moral forces are con-
stantly being multiplied, and when the
records of English history are complete in
covering this period of the empire, it will
be discovered that the brilliancy of Veto
rlas reign depended more upon the conser-
vatism of the middle class than upon the
Wanted loyalty of the nobility, or the &C
complishments of royalty. ''We live in
deeds, not words. He most lives who thinks
most feels the noblest, acts the best
One OF the most amusing characteristics
OF the English people to American pilgrims
is their pronunciation. There was more
point than jest in lady's surprise in hear
ing celebrated Englishman talk, when she
said that You speak the English we'll !"
why, madam, | am an Englishman." 80
much the greater my SURPRISE" quoth the
lady.
PECULIARITIEs OF SPEECH.
=, They write the language correctly, but
there is such a diversity of accent that to
speak 1t correctly is n marvel in the estima-
s''Ai VI WIZ Stt1eFlcdl ANA UleTb
Is a marked difference in their speaking
and writing. In speaking of the age of
friend they would say five and sixty
whereas they would write it sixty-five In
speaking Of distance they would say five
ana ten, Instead of fifteen miles. | noticed
TINS even in Mr.. Spurgeon when he was
preaching, When they invite you TO a seat,
they say sit you down" They pronounce
come, "koom;" good, ''gude;" yes, as ''yis;"
ma these things are not confined to the illit-
crate, but some of the most cultivated use
them. Some time ago a gentleman came
ulCo my office with his face flushed, and by
way OF apology for not meeting a business
engagement remarked that he had been
queer, very queer" by which he meant
'n al ne had been SICK very sick.
- mere Is as much difference between a
cornwall fishermans speech and York
Gtre GOLFERS as there is between that of a
herman and Frenchman. They cannot
understand one another any better than an
american can understand the gibberish of a
Worcestershire loot.
DIALECTS IN PARLIAMENT.
- IN the House of Parliament this diversity
u J., accent is very apparent. They have the
mish progue, the Wesch ard the Scotch
mliisled with the various English dialects,
iu 10 an outsider it is exceedingly interest
NY 70 watch one of their pitched battles Of
, "uius' >, Taking the published reports Of the
a"ceedlngs of Parliament the reader is
tia mh with the difference in the methods of
f nUusnt as well as expression of members
hOIl different Sactione